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Ideas for 'Works of Love', 'On What There Is' and 'In a Critical Condition'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

2469	The world is full of messy small things producing stable large-scale properties (e.g. mountains) [Fodor]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

1612	Realism, conceptualism and nominalism in medieval universals reappear in maths as logicism, intuitionism and formalism [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

2475	Don't define something by a good instance of it; a good example is a special case of the ordinary example [Fodor]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

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There is no entity called 'redness', and that some things are red is ultimate and irreducible [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

4443	Quine has argued that predicates do not have any ontological commitment [Quine, by Armstrong]